This week on the podcast PASSAGES: On Morrison, Namwali Serpell and @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social discuss Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
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The US government has been monitoring the AMOC in Icelandic waters. They recently announced that they are pulling the funding for it. Icelandic authorities are trying to figure a way to do it themselves.
"What floats and what sinks when it comes to ocean-based climate solutions?"
Important article from Christina Richardson of @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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Many ocean-based climate solutions deserve funding to boost deployment. But their worth must be weighed against that of other, potentially more impactful solutions – both at sea and on land.
Excellent pigeon sentence on Natl Pigeon Day (apparently a thing):
“The bug-eyed Budapest tumbler barely resembles the peacock-like fantail, the cropper, which can balloon its breast to softball proportions, or, indeed, the bizarre frillback, which …appears tangled in a mass of perm-treated hair.”
I have never seen a ‘floromorphe’ map. Incredible visualization held at the BnF of 17c Bohemia with Prague at the center.
Regret to inform biscuit company’s marketing team who in the book wants to eats hobbitses
Why are some people’s faces evocative of different times? The woman on the tram with a face out of Bruegel. And Sandra Hüller’s face which is transtemporal, equally at home in the new film set in the Thirty Years War and speaking elsewhere of the extreme contemporary.
Simple new #climate idea for more sea ice in the Arctic. First results promising, scalable with underwater drones, local communities involved👇🏼
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My #AI policy on any new syllabus will just be this meme
this thread maps out a range of contemporary affects following from the compulsory LLM'ing of college experience —it's an atlas of dysphoria, shame, and ambient hopeless discontent.
our students deserve better than this
Adrienne Ghaly
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Hildur Knútsdóttir
Adrienne Ghaly
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Dr. Dawn Wright
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Nathan K. Hensley
Beloved is a holy space made of words. Across the street from Washington Square Park, in New York City’s historic Judson Memorial Church, Namwali Serpell, writer Vinson Cunningham, and our live aud…
